RELIEF Rally (William Haggas/Tom Marquand) looked most unlucky not to land the Queen Mary Stakes at Royal Ascot last month, and the well-backed evens favourite made amends in no uncertain terms when dominating a big field for the valuable Weatherbys Super Sprint Stakes at Newbury on Saturday.

In a race worth £123,000 to connections of the winner, Tom Marquand’s mount had to race alone in the closing stages from her high draw, but it didn’t stop the filly from scampering clear by three lengths to score from 33/1 shot Dapperling (Richard Hannon/Sean Levey), who had made most of the running in the far-side group.